Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Why such high gifted ID rate?

My kids school has 6.1% of students identified gifted.

Another school in the same state, 30 miles away, has a 44.3% of students identified gifted.

How could a school have nearly half of the students be identified gifted?

What I know about the district is that it’s highly desirable, in a higher socioeconomic area, a suburb of a big city. I expect families are mostly college educated and have high incomes. I do hear a little about kids being stressed because of feeling academic pressure.

Is it accurate? Or not? Is there any advantage to identifying more kids as gifted?

Edit: adding that I looked up a few other schools that are considered highly desirable in the suburbs of the same city. Also have super high gifted ID rates in the 30s 40s percent range. The high socioeconomic level goes hand in hand with “desirable” school system. The cost of houses is more in these districts and part of that is because the desirable schools drive up the house value.